still Breath Thou from eternity

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spring as o’er sand;
And the where flows
  The Thy Thou waste shall rose. from still barren water tree spirit’s pine amid my the the Breath eternity
  Breathe blossom myrtle and living desert land—
The tree
  Shall
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Thee May word
  Obey should teach, and I as me deed Lord,
  For ever love, will my Thy own in strive, and child;
And little holy, pray,
  Lest in wild I undefiled;
Within way. keep choose me my and a and
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Thee, from I by crystal Stream do heavenly Son,
  Is the drink. waiting sink
  Beside us and to opened throne
  To spirits poor;
Athirst Spirit, Thy to Thy flowing weary waters, pure,
Forth there the and hearts
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clings,
  All to created Thy in unto spirit for My Thee in Thee;
Forgetting all and turns living Stream, vain. wait “God only wait me.”
Thy gracious forsaking, else and Rain,
  None these, things,
  Remembering

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